Chap. 161.—An ACT to validate, ratify and confirm an order for the circuit
court of Greene county incorporating the town of .Stanardsville in the
said county; to provide that the boundaries of the said town shall be set
out in said order; to validate an election held in pursuance of said order,
all ordinances of the council of said town, and all official acts of the mayor
of said town’ and its council; to provide that the said town shall have
certain officers, chosen by the council, and to confer upon it certain powers
concerning them; also to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the
town of Stanardsville in the county of Greene, approved February 5, 1867,
and an act entitled an act to change and define the corporate limits of the
town of Stanardsville in the county of Greene and for other purposes,
approved March 31, 1873. (§ B 415]

Approved March 10, 1922.

Whereas, the circuit court of Greene county did, upon the petition
of fifty-three voters of the town of Stanardsville, after legal noticé
thereof had been published in the Greene County Record, a’ news-
paper published in the said town of Stanardsville, for four successive
weeks beginning March 3,:1921, and ending March 24; 1921, enter an
order on April 18, 1921, incorporating said town of: Stanardsville it
pursuance of section twenty-eight hundred and eighty-one of the
Code of Virginia, and did declare the boundaries of the said town
to be as follows: “‘Beginning at the middle of Mallory’s ice pond at
the public road leading from Stanardsville to Beazley’s old miil, thence
to the south of Zirkle Blakey’s barn, to a tree south of Cap -Mc-
Mullan’s dwelling and near his corn house, thence following his road
or outlet to the pike just above Jack Cooper's, thence to the northeast
corner of Dr. E. D. Davis’ lot, thence to C. L. Bicker’s barn, thence
to the corner of the town lots sold by R. A. Breeden and the lot of
William Banks, thence following the line between the said town lots
and William Banks to the west side of said lots, thence to the branch
where it crosses the private road leading through the old Shipp land,
just south of William Kennedy’s lot, then following the meanders of
the said road south to the gate or bars that goes into the gate of J. A.
Blakey’s third field from the O. M. Bray corner, thence to O. M.
Bray's barn, thence to the pike where the old road leading from
Munday’s now Bray’s farm intersects just west of John Golden’s,
thence to a tree on J. M. Mallory’s land, thence to a tree on J. F. Mal-
lory’s land where an old brick kiln was, thence down the middle of
the ice pond to the road the beginning ;” and .

Whereas, in pursuance of the said order an election was held in said
town for the election of a mayor and four councilmen on the 24th
day of May, 1921, whereat H. W. Myers was chosen. mayor and
R. A. Breeden, R. C. Powell, Myron B. Bickers and Zirkle Blakey,
councilmen; and

Whereas, the said persons so elected duly qualified by taking and
subscribing the oaths of office and at once entered upon the discharge
of the duties of their respective offices and are still pertorming said
duties ; and

Whereas, the said town was incorporated by an act approved
February 5, 1867, and on March 31, 1873, an act to change and define
the corporate limits of the said town was "approved ; and

Whereas, there are some slight alterations in the boundary lines of
said town as specified in said court order and in the lines specified
in the said act approved March 31, 1873; and

Whereas, there is a question of the legality of the order of the said
court in incorporating said town; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia: That the
said order of the circuit court of Greene county be, and the same is
hereby, validated, ratified and confirmed, and that the boundaries of
the said town shall in all respects be as set out in the said order of
the said court.

. 2. The election aforesaid, and all ordinances passed by the council
of said town, and all official acts of the mayor of said town and its
council not in conflict with the general laws of this Commonwealth,
or its Constitution, or the Constitution of the United States, are
hereby validated.

3. The said town shall have a sergeant, clerk and treasurer and
such officers as the council may deem necessary or proper, all of
whom shall be chosen by the council.- The council shall prescribe the
duties of such officers in addition to the duties required of them by
law. It shall also fix their cgmpensation, prescribe penalties for
neglect of their duties and determine which of such officers shall give
bond and shall fix the penalties thereof. rT
4. An act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Stanards-
ville in the county of Greene, approved February 5, 1867, and an act
entitled an act to change and define the corporate limits of the town
of Stanardsville in the county of Greene and for other purposes,
approved March 31, 1873, are hereby repealed.

5. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.